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First, do you have a link to documentation for this ability? Second, "any competent sysadmin" would have to know that this exists. Super Micro's security team

First, do you have a link to documentation for this ability? Second, "any competent sysadmin" would have to know that this exists. Super Micro's security team didn't know this existed, or if they did, they failed to mention it in their response.

wannacboatmovie 3y ago
In the normal run of things, I'd tell you to do your own research. But we're all Irish today and I'm in a particularly giving mood. https://www.supermicro.com/Bios/sw_download/645/IPMICFG_User_Guide.pdf https://www.supermicro.com/Bios/sw_download/645/IPMICFG_User... IPMICFG -lani 0 You're welcome. (I do recall the syntax being a bit more cryptic, passing hex values, perhaps they've improved things since I last did this. Nevertheless, the capability has always been there.) SuperMicro themselves not knowing this exists isn't surprising in the least.
- RVuRnvbM2e 3y ago
  according to that doc the functionality was only added late 2022.
  - wannacboatmovie 3y ago
    Impossible as I was doing this nearly 10 years ago. See my comment about remembering the process to be rather cryptic (writing hex values to address offsets) but the capability WAS there. Perhaps they added that switch recently to make it more user friendly.
- johnklos 3y ago
  ...but IPMI configuration isn't stored in EEPROM. It's stored in NVRAM. And I believe you that you configured this pre-2022, but anyone could use the IPMI tools to configure this pre-2022 and pre- -lani option. You're trying to say it's in EEPROM, meaning it's invulnerable to battery loss. It definitely isn't.